Year: 2014

As a GCUC participant for the last few years it seemed strange to have attended SXSW without starting with a coworking hangover! This year GCUC has changed months and moved to Kansas City, leaving some folks wondering, “Why KC?” Being a native midwesterner, and admitted lover of Kansas City, I thought I’d try to answer…

Coffee and Wifi. When people talk about what they need/want/expect from coworking the two things that come up first are coffee and Wifi. While both are awesome, one is more critical to the success of a space (no, we don’t mean coffee). And we’re not just talking good internet. Coworking spaces need to offer seamless,…

A couple of years ago Regus began telling the story of how they had actually launched coworking through their worldwide proliferation of executive suite options. The coworking community rose up and loudly rejected this version of history. In the mainstream media this played out like a clash of younger and older generations but it runs…

Get your creative juices flowing! GCUC invites you to design the 2014 Global Coworking Unconference Conference t-shirt.  Come up with a design on your own, or better yet, collaborate with a friend. The Details… The 2014 GCUC t-shirt will be a soft, white tee with the contest winning design on the front, printed in 3…

I never imagined when I started my journey into the Coworking world that three short years after opening my own space in Austin, TX, I would also put on the largest Coworking conference in the world for the 3rd year.  It’s called the Global Coworking Unconference Conference in an ode to Stephen Colbert that at…

It all started as a meet-up of people coming to SXSW with an interest in Coworking. The meet-ups were held in Austin in 2008 and 2009 and organized by a local Coworking enthusiast. In 2010 Loosecubes decided to turn it into an actual event—the first ever Coworking Unconference. Liz Elam of Link Coworking helped the…